Jamestown Canyon encephalitis is a rare infectious disease characterized by acute fever, meningitis, or meningoencephalitis. It is caused by Jamestown Canyon virus (JCV), a mosquito-borne orthobunyavirus in the California serogroup in the order Bunyavirales of -ssRNA viruses. JCV was first isolated in 1961 from mosquitoes in Jamestown, Colorado. Since then, the virus has been isolated from various mosquito species. JCV neutralizing antibodies have been found in various mammals throughout mainland North America, and identified in humans.
Category
Viral infectious disease
Brite
Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Viral infections of the central nervous system
1C80 Viral encephalitis not elsewhere classified
H02511 Jamestown Canyon encephalitis
Genome-based classification of infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
Viral infections
Infections caused by -ssRNA viruses
H02511 Jamestown Canyon encephalitis
